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In the last decade, Jürgen Habermas focused on the economic and political obstacles undermining the “faltering project” of the European Union, along with the technocratic apparatus and the media complexity permeating the mass representation of such an epochal socio-political process. His sociological analysis aims to emphasize the rhetorical flair of the public narration of our common European pe…

The emergence of test-based accountability as a dominant form of monitoring and control of educational services in the Global North is not an isolated phenomenon but the result of a series of broader policy trends. Market-oriented reforms have become ubiquitous in advanced economies, with emphasis on privatisation, deregulation, and quasi-markets as concrete manifestations of free-market theory (…

Chapter 6 provides an account of the ways in which high-stakes accountability frameworks produce a specific type of school that is driven by score-seeking practices. I referred to this type of school as the quantified school, characterised by full compliance with the metrics-driven demands from the education system, exceeding the statutory requirements towards output optimisation. The quantified …

In this chapter, Fagerholm records the history and contemporary status of the radical left in Finland. Since its foundation in the early 1990s, the Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto, VAS) is the only relevant radical left party in the country. VAS has continued the pragmatic traditions of its influential predecessor, the post-war umbrella organisation SKDL, and is today a fully integrated part of t…

This chapter sets out the aims of the Handbook in presenting some of the best and most recent scholarship on the radical left in Europe, summarises existing literature and introduces the chapters. The contributors focus on the development of the radical left from 2000 until the beginning of 2020 (prior to the onset of Covid-19). The Handbook adopts a pan-European approach to ensure a broader scop…

Recent comparative studies have suggested that RLPs are forming new networks and links with social movements (SMs). This chapter maps the linkage attempts of the RLPs studied in this Handbook. It identifies four distinct ‘theses’ regarding the development of the links between RLPs and SMs. Those include the position that the two actors operate in ‘separate spheres’, an interpenetration scenario, …

Catherine Louisa PirkisPirkis, C.L. is best known for The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894), a collection of seven short stories which features one of fiction’s earliest female-authored women detectives, PirkisPirkis, C.L. also wrote thirteen novels and a range of short stories.

This chapter examines Wharton’s writings on architecture and design, notably The Decoration of Houses (1897) and Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). Insisting on viewing house decoration as a branch of architecture, Wharton’s work in this field is not entirely original, but its scholarship and authority would elevate American public discourse on interior design and architecture to another le…

The forays of the Chicago School of Economics into law, political science, and sociology have attracted no shortage of attention. The secondary literature on these forays focuses on the published work of members of the Chicago School, and is purblind to the examination of archival materials. This chapter uses archival research about two pillars of the Chicago School, George Stigler and Aaron Dire…

George Stigler coined the name “the Coase theorem” to refer to the idea proposed by Ronald Coase in “The Problem of Social Cost” (Coase in Journal of Law and Economics 3:1–44, 1960) of a negotiated solution to externalities. But the name contained two errors: it was not a theorem, and it was not Coase’s message, which insisted rather on the role of transaction costs. In microeconomics, the uniden…

Our focus in this chapter will be on the methodological role that Stigler played in validating what he regarded as the science of economics‘science’ of economics that he had inherited from his own teacher, Frank Knight, and how this affected his understanding not only of economic theory but also public policy. Stigler’s understanding of economic science, viewed from a Knightian perspective, illus…

Illicit trade in antiquities, fuelled by plundering, looting and theft, is an old business. Despite the emergence of the international legal framework to protect cultural heritage and prohibit illicit trade in some forms after World War II, pillaging and destruction in the wake of the twenty-first century have demonstrated that the humanity keeps losing its most precious treasures at a dangerous …

Hagemann focuses on John R. Hicks, the first British economist to receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1972. Hicks felt a lifelong commitment to London School of Economics (LSE), the institution that made him an economist and where he taught from 1926 to 1935. Hagemann discusses how Hicks’s later works at Cambridge, Manchester and Oxford are linked…

Examining the intellectual and institutional development of the subject, Lewis argues that the LSE’s founders regarded economic history as a core discipline, a bridge between economics and other social sciences that was critical to the mission to foster applied research and practical education. Methodological pluralism, deploying theory to frame questions about social, economic and political chan…

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), one of the substantive outcomes of the 1992 Rio ‘Earth Summit’, entered into force in 1994 16. The Convention aims to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” (Article 2) (UNFCCC, Paris Agreement as Contained in the Report of the Conference of the Parties on Its Twenty-First Session, 2015). It is one…

The A-T Children's Project is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support and co-ordinate biomedical research projects, scientific conferences and a clinical centre aimed at finding a cure for ataxia-telangiectasia, a lethal genetic disease that attacks children, causing progressive loss of muscle control, as well as cancer and immune system problems.

The A-T Children's Project is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support and co-ordinate biomedical research projects, scientific conferences and a clinical centre aimed at finding a cure for ataxia-telangiectasia, a lethal genetic disease that attacks children, causing progressive loss of muscle control, as well as cancer and immune system problems.

The A-T Children's Project is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support and co-ordinate biomedical research projects, scientific conferences and a clinical centre aimed at finding a cure for ataxia-telangiectasia, a lethal genetic disease that attacks children, causing progressive loss of muscle control, as well as cancer and immune system problems.

This chapter introduces the five most prominent approaches to multimodal data analysis: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis, Mediated Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, and Multimodal Conversation Analysis. The chapter begins by discussing the origin of each approach, methods of data collection and analysis, and embedded theoretical foundations.…

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader through each key source of …